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0 pointsluigi15y ago0 comments

I don't want a www. on it.

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AdamGibbins15y ago· 2 in thread

OK, don't then. I was just suggesting a temporary fix as its unlikely Amazon will fix this any time soon.

Also be aware that their are benefits to hosting your site on www. - its not just for historical reasons. e.g. the ability to restrict cookies to the subdomain - which you can't do with root domains as it affects all subdomains also.

Not to mention people will some people will still go to www. by default anyhow so you're always going to have to have a www.

moe15y ago

which you can't do with root domains as it affects all subdomains also.

rfc2109 disagrees:

  A is a FQDN string and has the form NB, where N is a non-empty name
  string, B has the form .B', and B' is a FQDN string.  (So, x.y.com
  domain-matches .y.com but not y.com.)

zepolen15y ago

That's his point, setting a cookie on the root "domain.com" will mean it's sent to "www.domain.com" or "blog.domain.com" as well. You mostly do not want this.

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zepolen15y ago

Why not?

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